Anniversary of Shame
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | December 12th at 04:40 PM |
It was one year ago, on December 12, 2008, that the church Sarah Palin’s family attends was torched: WASILLA — Whoever torched Gov. Sarah Palin’s home church tried to start fires in several places around the building, the federal agency assisting in the investigation said Monday. Accelerants were found in multiple locations on the outside of Wasilla Bible Church, including around entrances and exits, according | Read More »
Palin-hatin’ bloggers and the Wyle E. Coyote Effect
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | August 4th at 12:55 AM |
We don’t subscribe to the notion recently floated by Rick Moran in “Did Sarah Palin just ‘Pwn’ the media with divorce rumors?” The theory holds that the Gryphen-Zaki meltdown over the weekend was the result of an elaborate Rovian-style setup brilliantly planned and executed by Sarah Palin: It’s too pat, the pieces fit too nicely together (an “explanation” for why she resigned) not to raise | Read More »
You must see this Bill Whittle video
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 27th at 06:55 PM |
This isn’t a diary; this is a call to action. Bill Whittle has made a video in which he explains why the left, the media and Vichy Republicans joined in a de facto Axis of Elites to try to destroy Sarah Palin. This is must-see PJTV, and it’s made out of pure 100% awesome. But it’s about much more than Sarah Palin. It’s about a | Read More »
I’m proud to have been an Erickson cohort
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 22nd at 02:15 PM |
Last November, I received an offer that I couldn’t refuse. Erick Erickson invited me to become one of what Newsweek called “his cohorts”: “Erickson and his team of 25 core contributors—a regular-folks crew that includes a construction worker and a stay-at-home dad—also pick candidates to back in key state-level races and use the site to raise money for them.” After I pinched my arm a | Read More »
The dogfight over the F-22A Raptor
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 17th at 02:02 PM |
Although it has yet to see combat in the air, the F-22 Raptor air superiority fighter is the object of an intense dogfight on Capitol Hill. The debate has made for some strange bedfellows. On one side, there are the antis – the Pentagon, Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin and Sen. John McCain among them – who want to wrap the program up and | Read More »
Here are those jobs Obama promised you
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 16th at 01:05 PM |
Hi, Billy Mays here, coming to you from beyond the grave for Jobs That Matter. Near double-digit unemployment got you down? Out of work since that temp job as a census-taking clown? Don’t despair, you can work for *ObamaCare! We need change like never before — on the economy, climate change and WAIT — there’s more!
Memo to Linda Kellen Biegel
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 15th at 06:32 PM |
To: Linda Kellen Biegel, a.k.a “Celtic Diva” Re: Ethics Violation As you can see from the attached photograph, this federal employee is in clear violation of Sec. 2635.101 of the Standards Of Ethical Conduct For Employees Of The Executive Branch, Subpart A, “General Provisions” – which states: (8) Employees shall act impartially and not give preferential treatment to any private organization or individual. Millions of | Read More »
SarahPAC raised $733,000 in five months
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 13th at 06:46 PM |
That’s right, five months — not six — bacause as Allah notes at Hot Air — SarahPAC wasn’t fully operational until the end of January: “By comparison, Romney’s PAC raised $1.4 million through the end of May, but then fundraising is pretty much Mitt’s full-time gig these days and he already has a polished team around him left over from the primaries. Let’s see what | Read More »
Poll: Voters Trust GOP over Dems on 8 of 10 Key Issues
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 11th at 05:35 PM |
Well, that didn’t take long. Those of us who expected the Democrats, with control over three DC houses — House, Senate and White House — to blow it didn’t expect it happen so quickly. But it seems that the donkey party, by misinterpreting their 2008 election victory as a mandate (it wasn’t) and by overreaching on the stimulus, abortion, cap and trade, health care reform | Read More »
Flea Fly Foe Frum
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 11th at 12:50 PM |
David Frum has now pontificated on the Palin resignation, so the Vichy wing of the Republican Party can stop holding its collective breath and exhale. “On reflection” Frum has it all figured out. It’s all about the money: “2009-2011 will be her peak years for speaking fees. If she runs for president in 2012, she’ll be obliged to cut back her paid speeches in the | Read More »
You can still call her ‘governor’ after July 26
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 8th at 07:39 PM |
Like ex-senators and former presidents, ex-governors retain their honorific titles, so Sarah Palin will still be addressed as “Governor Palin” after she officially turns the reigns of her office over to Sean Parnell July 26. The 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate has never been much of a stickler for that kind of thing, though, as she signs “Sarah” to her non-official correspondence. So what will | Read More »
Palin to Andrea Mitchell: ‘You’re not listening to me’
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 7th at 04:48 PM |
Gov. Sarah Palin granted interviews to the legacy media yesterday, and each outlet added its own spin to its presentation of the story. One thing is obvious from watching the various videos and reading the stories: they don’t get it. Palin had to scold NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, for instance. “You’re not listening to me,” she admonished the ditzy reporter after Mitchell asked the governor a | Read More »
Exploding the ‘she abandoned her post’ meme
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 6th at 11:57 PM |
In the wake of Gov. Sarah Palin’s announcement that she will resign her office before the end of the month, she has been the target of considerable crtiticism from the punditocracy on both the left and the right who sneer that “she abandoned her post.” John Podhoretz says the charge is disengenuous: Strangely, neither of these commentators, nor anybody else for that matter, accused, say, | Read More »
Why she’s resigning: A warrior must be mobile
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 5th at 12:37 PM |
From Gov. Palin via Twitter: See letter from my attorney on baseless allegations of past 24hrs @ http://tinyurl.com/l4ct5n(excerpt) The Palin-hating left has been salivating this weekend over lies that began at an Alaska ankle biter website, percolated up to the national nutroots and got mentioned on several major liberal media outlets.
Sarah’s Satisfaction
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 3rd at 11:51 PM |
If Sarah Palin had intended to make media heads collectively explode, she couldn’t have planned it better. She called a press conference on short notice, then announced that not only would she not seek a second term as Alaska’s governor, but she intended to resign later this month. All that would remain for her to do is pop some Orville’s, sit back and enjoy the | Read More »
Sarah Palin will resign as Alaska governor
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 3rd at 03:12 PM |
From anchorage television station KTUU: WASILLA, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin will resign her office in a few weeks, she said during a news conference at her home Friday morning. The governor gave no reason why she will resign, but there has been much speculation that she intends to run for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. Update: A tweet from the governor: “We’ll soon attach | Read More »
The Declaration of Independence
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 3rd at 07:09 AM |
From the National Archives: Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation’s most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson’s most enduring monument. Here, in exalted and unforgettable phrases, Jefferson expressed the convictions in the minds and hearts of the American people. The political philosophy of the Declaration was not new; its ideals of | Read More »
Frum demonstrates why Vichy Republicans will kill the GOP
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 2nd at 10:12 PM |
David Frum has done conservatives a great favor, and we should be thankful. The favor is not that he has written another negative piece about Gov. Palin. No, that’s nothing new for Frum, who has been bashing the governor since she stepped up onto the national stage. Frum’s gift to conservatives is that in the article, he clearly demonstrates why Vichy Republicans cannot be trusted | Read More »
Petty Democrats want to remove Reagan’s name from airport
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 2nd at 06:31 PM |
Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board chairman H.R. Crawford told the panel at its Wednesday meeting that he heard some congresscritters talking about removing President Ronald Reagan’s name from DC’s airport.
Poor Joe Biden can’t even fill a room
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 1st at 08:25 PM |
Back in December at a meeting with the nation’s governors, then vice President-Elect Joe Biden asked Governor Sarah Palin for help in attracting some attention:
Panama will swear in a new president today
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 1st at 12:42 PM |
Twenty years after the United States removed Manuel Noriega from power, and with the recent focus on Honduras, Panama has been well below the radar for most Americans: But it is a strategically important country that is playing a growing role in global trade. Indeed, it is estimated that 5 percent of all international trade-and a much higher percentage of U.S. trade-goes through the Panama | Read More »
There they go again
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 1st at 02:34 AM |
The NY Daily News is promoting the August edition of Vanity Fair, in which a vicious hit piece full of lies, distortions and innuendo savagely attacks everything about Sarah Palin, not the least of which is her character. The author is the liberal magazine’s national editor Todd Purdum. If you don’t know where he’s coming from, consider that Purdum formerly hacked for the New York Times, | Read More »
Suppressed reports vindicate Palin polar bear policy
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | June 29th at 12:29 AM |
Early in January, a Sarah Palin op-ed appeared in the NY Times in which she argued against adding the Polar Bear to the list of endangered species because the polar bear populations in the Arctic were healthy: “…polar bears are more numerous now than they were 40 years ago. The polar bear population in the southern Beaufort Sea off Alaska’s North Slope has been relatively stable | Read More »
Obama’s middle-class tax pledge headed under the bus
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | June 28th at 05:56 PM |
One of Barack Obama’s often repeated promises made on the campaign trail was that he would not raise taxes on the midddle class: “I can make a firm pledge,” he said in Dover, N.H., on Sept. 12. “Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your | Read More »
Spokesperson: Kerry didn’t mean what he said
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | June 27th at 05:04 PM |
Senator John Kerry has thrown the joke he told Tuesday about Governor Sarah Palin under the bus. Or in Kerryspeak, he obviously voted for the joke before he voted against it. Just one day after Gov. Palin stood up to the liberal Senator and returned fire, he has apparently calculated that his joke went too far, not to mention that he has lousy timing.